Interdisciplinary

Summary About the Position: Serves as Project Engineer and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) responsible for the enforcement of contract requirements for all assigned contracts. Utilizes all available resources to maintain progress and ensure safe, high quality, and timely completion of construction projects. Exercises delegated authority for the accomplishment of all contracts. Responsibilities Discusses details of construction with contractor personnel, recommends changes to the contracts and coordinates the authorizations with the ACO. Prepares Independent Government Estimates of cost, and Requests for Proposals. Conducts negotiation with the contractor, prepares Memorandum of Understanding on price agreements and prepares contract modification for signature by the Contracting Officer or ACO. Assures all construction is accomplished in accordance with proper quality control and assurance procedures and governing plans and specifications. Reviews Quality Assurance reports and spot-checks contractor quality control reports and test results for compliance and accuracy. Receives and checks for contract compliance of technical submittals from the contractor such as shop drawings, catalog cuts, samples, certificates of compliance, plans and methods of operation, balance reports, and test results. Notifies contractor of deficiencies and directs action to be taken. Obtains final acceptance for using agency after all deficiencies and adjustments have been accomplished and until occupancy has been granted. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education/experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which includes: Serve as a project manager for construction projects. Assist in the planning and oversight of cost and schedule execution of the planning, design, and/or construction of a project in coordination with other functional elements. Assist in the evaluation of the status of project against established milestones and objectives to assure the attainment of goals and objectives; Maintaining effective working relationship with both internal and external customers to ensure successful project completion; Reviewing and evaluating the work of team members and engineers project work; and ensuring that project reports, documents, contract plans, and specifications are following policies, regulations, or guidance. Basic requirements: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Civil Engineering Oral Communication Project Planning, Design, and Construction Teamwork Education FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a(n) 18 Career Field position Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Incentives may be offered with a signed service agreement (relocation, recruitment, student loan repayment).